Defense case bolstered by new evidence in Hauptmann bid
In Trenton New Jersey authorities report Hauptmann's lawyers added two Washington attorneys and possible new evidence as Friday night execution date nears. They retained Nugent Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw who previously saved a condemned man. Governor Hoffman weighed a possible reprieve under state law.
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Dale Harrison
Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Bruno Hauptmann
Washington
Nugent Dodds
Neil Burkinshaw
United States
Supreme Court
New Jersey Court of Pardons
Bernard M. Finnigan
Chicago
Harold G. Hoffman
Finnigan
Lloyd Fisher
Hauptmann
Dodds
Burkinshaw
Fisher
Slent Fisher
Federal District Court
Newark
Anna Hauptmann
Trinity Lutheran Church
Hoffman
Lindbergh
New York
New Jersey
Freighter Iowa Wreck Off Peacock Spit Claims 34 Lives
Astoria reported that thirty four men were lost when the intercoastal freighter Iowa, 410 feet long, broke up in a 76 mph hurricane off Peacock Spit. Coast guardsmen said no survivors among the crew as the vessel grounded under pounding seas. The Onondaga narrowly averted the danger zone while Captain R. Stanley Patch ordered withdrawal.
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Iowa
Peacock Spit
Davey Jones
Coast Guard
Onondaga
Civil War Vet Edward Potter Dies at 91 in Ohio Home
Edward L. Potter, a Civil War veteran aged 91, died today at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors' Home in Sandusky. His passing reduced the number of Civil War veterans remaining in the facility to eight.
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Sandusky, O
Edward L. Potter
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors
Congress Today Holds Noon Sessions On Multiple Committees
Congress today meets at noon to conduct routine business and consider District of Columbia legislation. The Foreign Relations Committee weighs neutrality measures while the Munitions Committee continues discussions with J. P. Morgan and other financiers on war loan financing. The Finance Committee reviews additional bonus questions.
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Foreign Relations
J. P. Morgan
District of Columbia
Roosevelt kin not charged after assault allegations
Cambridge Massachusetts January 13 AP district attorney Warren L Bishop said serious charges of assault and battery with dangerous weapons against Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt 20 grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and a college classmate were not pressed today.
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Cambridge
Mass
Cornelius van Schaak Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Warren L. Bishop
Morgan Denies Blame in Senate Naval Munitions Probe
Evidence emerged in a Senate investigation that U S munitions makers pledged to fill British orders regardless of U S needs prompting J P Morgan to deny any responsibility for his banking house amid protests.
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Washington
United States
Senate
J. P. Morgan
Roxy the Movie Showman Dies in New York Hotel Room
Samuel L. Rothafel known as Roxy died of a heart attack in his hotel room at the Gotham in New York. The famed motion picture producer shaped theatergoing with his ambitious showman’s methods.
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New York
Samuel L. Rothafel
Roxy
Gotham
Long Termeler Dead Columbus Ohio Penitentiary
Bastarda, 62, who had served second longest term of 4300 prisoners in Ohio penitentiary, died Sunday of infirmities.
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Columbus
Bastarda
Ohio
Bread price cut debated at Ohio bakers convention
Announcement of a one cent bread price cut by three Cleveland chains sparked chatter among delegates at the 31st Ohio Bakers Association convention opening in Toledo. The topic was not expected to be taken up during sessions.
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Toledo
Cleveland
Ohio Bakers’ Association
Shooting case suspect heard in Jackson County
Major F Marion Webster 47 of New Lexington faced Jackson county authorities on a charge of shooting W E Davis Columbus for Hocking county railroader January 4. Davis recovering from a bullet wound in the abdomen at his mother in law’s Goldsboro home in Jackson county. Walker a Scottish born former British Air Force officer was arrested after Mrs Davis described her husband’s attacker. He denies the accusations though the victim later identified him in a group of six suspects.
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F. Marion Webster
New Lexington
Camp Webster
South Webster
Jackson County
W. E. Davis
Columbus
Hocking County
Davis
Logan
Goldsboro
Walker
Scotland
Ohio relief faces June deadline with $10.5 million plan
Ohio lawmakers weigh relief needs as June 30 approaches and the $10.5 million program awaits governor Davey's signature. WPA funds of $2 million monthly end the same date, risking 275000 jobless state residents. Senate leader Yoder pushes a service tax to raise about $8 million through year end.
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Columbus
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Senate
Paul P. Yoder
Eaton
Husband Indicted in Slaying of Wife on Christmas Eve
Larry Jacques, 27, was indicted by a grand jury on second degree murder charges for the fatal shooting of his wife during a quarrel at their Gallipolis home Christmas Eve.
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Gallipolis
Larry Jacques
Embattled Farmers Picket Congress For New Farm Plan
Washington January 13 AP embattled farmers gathered in the capital to press Congress to enact a new farm program. A nationally represented poll shows broad plans to keep contact with lawmakers as drafting of a farm bill begins. The initiative includes production controls with subsidized soil conservation and cash payments linked to conservation. funding may rely on old processing tax revenues as excise levies after the AAA ruling.
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Congress
Washington
Dow
AAA
Supreme Court
Fascists Push Aerial Attacks in Ethiopian Front
A neutral observer reports Italian air squadrons bombing the Webbe Shibeli and Ganale Doria valleys daily between 7 and 9 am as fascist invaders press from Ras Desta Demtu's camp. Northern troop movements are slowed by rains. heat and malaria hinder southbound drives. An air raid at Negele caused six deaths and 40 injuries. Four British ships head to the Mediterranean from Portsmouth.
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Roy P. Portersameine
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Ras Desta Demtu
Negele
Dolo
T H
Portsmouth
Mediterranean
Jobs Cut CCC Roster in Fifth Corps Area
CCC enrollment fell by 811 men in December in the Fifth Corps Area. Ft. Hayes officials report 40,123 men enrolled across 216 camps in the district covering Ohio Kentucky Indiana and Virginia.
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Columbus
Ccc
Fifth Corps
Ft. Hayes
Comjo
Kentucky
Indiana
Abairginia
Body Of Porker Found In Attic In Ohio
A blood trail from the Deffenbaugh farm near South Perry led to the arrest of Shirley Bailey and Wilbur Bowen as suspects in stealing and killing a hog. The hog was found in Bailey’s attic after sheriff’s deputies investigated and both men pleaded guilty and were fined ten dollars plus costs and sentenced to 30 days in Hocking county jail.
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George Deffenbaugh
South Perry
Shirley Bailey
Wilbur Bowen
Deffenbaugh
Joe Farbearn
Newton Spencer
Huth
Bailey
St. Perry
S. B. Whitehart
Hocking County
Sulkin Granted New 60-Day Reprieve in Ohio Murders Case
Governor Davey delayed Jacob Sulkin's scheduled execution by 60 days citing trial cases upcoming this month. Sulkin, known as Firetop, was convicted of complicity in four Toledo gang murders and faces a new reprieve while awaiting further proceedings.
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Columbus
Davey
Jacob
Firetop) Sulkin
Toledo
Ohio Penitentiary
Sect Prays For Girl In Religious Trance
Dearborn high school girl Shir ley Tapp remains unconscious in a trance like sleep after a Wednesday meeting of the full salvation union. Doctors describe her condition as auto hypnosis with mind responsive only to religious stimuli as her father Laverne Tapp reports she will awaken on the seventh day.
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Detroit
Full Salvation Union
Dearborn
Laverne Tapp
Edward F. Fisher
Tapp
Shirley
Supreme Court orders return of $200 million of impounded taxes
The high court unanimously rules that $200,000,000 of processing taxes impounded by courts must be returned to taxpayers. It does not rule on Bankhead Act constitutionality now and adjourns without deciding TVA Act issues. The decision notes the Bankhead review was improvidently granted and returns the case to lower court.
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James W. Douthat
Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Bankhead
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Rice Millers
Roberts
AAA
Butler (Aaa
Safecrack gang uses dynamite on city ice co. safe
Cleveland police hunted a gang that bound a night watchman and blew open a City Ice and Fuel Co. safe with dynamite. They obtained $1,000 as detectives linked the crime to a gang that has struck nearly every other Sunday for a year, noting the robbers used a portable radio to monitor police broadcasts.
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Cleveland
City Ice & Fuel Co
Yeges
Local man in wreck in Lancaster
Saturday afternoon a collision in Lancaster involved George Vogle of Logan Route 2 and Richard Matthews of 124 Ewing St. Both cars sustained slight damage and no one was injured.
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Lancaster
George Vogle
Logan
Richard Matthews
Ewing St
Lamecaster
Five More Guests Rules Are Changed
Five subscribers of the Logan Daily News listed inside the issue are invited as guests at the Chakeres Logan Theatre showing by presenting a copy of the paper at the office for guest tickets on specified days.
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Logan Daily News
Chakeres Logan Theatre
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